I’m still in Cali, just left Palm Springs off to Los Angeles. The first weekend of Coachella Music Festival 2018, one of the place to be during this month of April, has just ended. How to get there and what happened? I am telling you everything.

The first thing to do is get the tickets. You can buy them as soon as they go on presale, in June of the previous year, or when they open the online sales (this year I think it happened in January). Normally they go sold out in a few hours, but there is always a way to buy them even much later. Since you can not change the ticket name, my advice is to be more than sure that you can go, before buying tickets. Which ticket to buy? The VIP Pass, without a doubt. It allows access to the area located adjacent to the main stage and other restricted areas with bars, restrooms and areas in the shade of a tree. Keep in mind that you will be in the middle of the desert, so you absolutely need to shelter from the sun in the shade of a palm tree, but remember that you will stay there until late at night, so better to dress in layers and do not forget a bandana to cover your face from the sand clouds.

For the stay you can choose whether to sleep in the Coachella campsite or in a hotel or a villa, as I did, in the nearby Palm Springs. I say it’s hard to give up for a whole weekend at a private bathroom. From Palm Springs there is a shuttle service (you will have to pay for it) to go back and forth from the festival. But the main reason for choosing Palm Springs is this one: for the events. Parties start late in the morning and go on until it’s time to take the shuttle. The best ones this year? I hope you have seen them on my Instagram Stories @robertoderosa! They were the party for the announcement of the next Moschino x H&M collaboration, the one at the Furla Mansion and the Levi’s Pool Party.

Lineup. This year the festival has been nicknamed Beychella. Queen Beyoncè was huge, a memorable performance. I feel more than lucky to be able to say: I was there. Eminem’s was the other concert that I could not wait to hear, too, and then there were The Weeknd, Kygo, SZA, Haim and, among my favorites, Odesza.